According to Aquinas, it is impossible for all things that exist to be capable of not existing because

A) something can come from nothing.

B) if all things are capable of not existing, then there must have been a time when the universe did not exist, since anything which is "capable of not existing, at some time or other does not exist."

C) all things exist contingently.

D) the universe is eternal.


A

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